How to include non-Python dependencies TA-Lib - Streamlit

[pitanjal]

One of my application’s dependencies is the ‘ta-lib’ library, which is a Python wrapper for a library written in C.

I am getting the following error.

talib/_ta_lib.c:526:10: fatal error: ta-lib/ta_defs.h: No such file or directory

   #include "ta-lib/ta_defs.h"

            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  compilation terminated.

  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

  ----------------------------------------

  ERROR: Failed building wheel for TA-Lib

  Running setup.py clean for TA-Lib

[Charly_Wargnier]

Hi pitanjal, and welcome to the forum!

This seems to be an installation issue, unrelated to Streamlit. Have you tried to make it work in your terminal? or in a Google Colab? Do you get the same error?

Best,
Charly

[randyzwitch]

Hi @pitanjal -

Please see this forum post, where a user provides a workaround since TA Lib is not installable via the apt package manager:

TA-Lib Streamlit Deploy Error

Hi @randyzwitch and @juwimana I’d call it a hack instead of a solution, I hope they’ll find a better way to support it soon. i.e. Heroku has a buildpack option which is a solution for this. So first of all some information: It’s a docker container where we’re not root (they did a nice job, it’s simple and work quite nice) ta-lib doesn’t have a debian package on the official repo Since we’re not root we can’t simply add a repo, or install a package on the system In the end we need to follow …

Best,
Randy